Nahum Parker

Nahum Parker (4 March 1760-12 November 1839) was a US Senator from New Hampshire from 4 March 1807 to 1 June 1810, succeeding William Plumer and preceding Charles Cutts. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Nahum Parker was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts in 1760, and he served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He settled in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire in 1786, serving on the board of selectmen from 1790 to 1794 and as clerk and town treasurer from 1792 to 1815. He also served in the State House of Representatives from 1794 to 1804 and from 1806 to 1807, and he was chosen to finish William Plumer's US Senate term in 1807. Parker himself resigned in 1810 to return to local politics, and he died in 1839.